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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are people out there using YT without an ad-blocker?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

well, The majority of YT users doesn't even know what is an adblocker.

edit: typo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That makes me kind of sad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The dreams in which I'm dying...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I prefer watching on my tablet, and still got no luck with any ad blocker. Somehow I like the default YT app, so switching to something else would be hard for me…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use NewPipe. Never seen a single add in 5+ years.

Then again I don't use a google account on YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes NewPipe is great, just watch what you want, no ads, just the channels you're subscribed to !! But I wonder how this YouTube blocking experiment is going to affect NewPipe as it's not using a YouTube account for watching.....